Holiday candles from Paddywax: "a handpainted Nutcracker candle that fills your space with festive fragrance and makes a charming addition to your Christmas décor", in (left to right) Wassail, Balsam & Fir and Pomegranate Spruce. $60 each at Nordstrom.
A lemming for fans of (modern) Miss Dior: a candle from the new Miss Dior Millefiori Couture collection. "Miss Dior inaugurates its first scented candle that recreates the fresh and floral notes of the fragrance. The trail of Miss Dior is unfurled in delicate swirls of fragrance once the candle is lit, and lasts for 24 hours of burning time." $49 for 85g at Dior.
I also mentioned my favorite perfumes that I couldn't get anymore. I went looking for Norman Norell’s fragrance. Nobody even knows Norman had a fragrance. He was a huge fashion designer, especially for Hollywood, and he had this amazing perfume. Once he passed away, you just couldn't find it. We couldn't truly re-create it with the candle. We bought three bottles on eBay, but they had all gone bad. But we read all about it, and we took inspiration. We pulled the elements I love: musk, leather, and Jamaica–and that informed everything. There was this one fruit from Jamaica that we explored, the naseberry, which very similar to a pear flavor.
— Grace Jones, on talking to perfumer Jérôme Epinette about her new candle for Boy Smells, Grace. Read more in Grace Jones on Creating Her Debut Scent with Boy Smells at Harper's Bazaar.
Spendy little home fragrance items from luxury tableware brand Ginori 1735. At left, the Il Letterato Lavander Designer candelabra ("a porcelain sculpture in the form of a bust. The upper part is adorned with a hat-like cylindrical container, designed to carefully protect the candle and its wisdom"), packaged with six 40g Purple Hill (floral) scented candles, $410. At right, the Cameo incense burner La Gazelle d'Or ("sauntering in the shady gardens of La Gazelle d’Or, one chances upon an incense holder: an oval cameo with the serene gaze of a classical face outlined in relief"), incense sold separately, $340.
I'm still hankering after the tomato candle from Nette (although obviously not bad enough to actually buy it), and here's another for my list: Chai Milk. "Fingertips to your lips, hush in the midnight hour. Steamed milk, a secret spice, spells for the lovelorn. Frothy clouds rise up and up. One cardamom bud in your cup. This inky black morning alone with you. Like a perfect steaming hot chai latte on a chilly fall day." $82 (even more than the tomato! but that one was 170g, this one is 340g) at Beautyhabit.